Word: connoisseurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ARTUR RUBINSTEIN, who celebrated his 75th birthday last month, is a great connoisseur of life. Even his recordings evoke the aroma of fine cigars, the company of good friends, a glass of old port at bedtime. VLADIMIR HOROWITZ, who has not played in public since 1953, is more inscrutable. His humor is shy, his pathos and his beliefs are strong. Yet the two share a comradely distinction: they are the last of the great romantic pianists, and like Spanish-American War veterans, they live in an age that prizes them without necessarily knowing the grandeur of their tradition...
...troubled young priest goes to Rome, where his aristocratic father and a cardinal friend are close advisers of the Pope. The cardinal (Fred Stewart) is a jovial, fleshy connoisseur of wine, rare flowers, and the chess game of international politics. "Trouble tempers dictators," he remarks after Hitler loses Stalingrad, and presses Father Riccardo to be a realist, since "the realist compromises." In his uncompromising way, the young priest finally sees Pius and begs him to damn Hitler openly. The Pope knows Hitler's wrongs, but he reminds Father Riccardo that "a diplomat must see with discretion...
What Money Can't Buy. It is indeed. From physical condition to family, he has everything money can't buy. At 62, he has a physique that many a younger man might envy, works out regularly at a gym. He has a connoisseur's taste but an aristocrat's reticence about acknowledging it. "Me a gourmet?" he says deprecatingly, when he actually craves things like river pike drenched in crayfish butter and will, under interrogation and a glaring light, admit that one day last summer he drove 75 miles out of his way to patronize...
This is just as well, for if he were to play his actual self, he would sever the very tendons of plausibility. He is a citizen of hotel rooms, and his "normal" accent is imitation Oxonian. He wears purple velvet slippers initialed in gold. He considers himself a connoisseur of fine wine, which he sometimes chases down with vodka...
...Bears are the dullest team in pro football- to anybody but a connoisseur of crunch. They hug the ground defiantly, pass only under duress, rank No. 8 in the fourteen-team N.F.L. m scoring (with 233 points) and No. 11 in total offense (with 3,329 yds.). That kind of football is hardly calculated to win friends and influence fans: last month, when the Bears beat the lowly Los Angeles Rams 6-0 on the strength of two field goals they played most of the second half to the accompaniment of home-town boos But the Bears make no excuses...